Brat Code
She is, Cooper has come to the conclusion, someone he can talk to. She is precisely human, no more no less. Cooper steps up to the monitor and, after a slight second thought, takes in a breath, and braces himself.
"I assume, you've read the data," Jenna says.
"I have. Yes."
"Doesn't it make you think twice?
"About Suzi?"
"Who else?"
"Yes. I've thought twice."
"She doesn't even pretend to care, according to data."
"Do you think she's going to tell us anything about herself, something we don't already know?" he says. "It's Suzi who writes her own code from her own biodata, mixed in with some of her own fantasy about space."
"It's a strange combination."
"So ComTrax seems to think."
"It's an endless rant that gives advanced warning. It goes on and on. And then, click. She shifts to quantum mode."
"Proves her value is intrinsic."
"We know. Still, her data, it's gone tangential."
"You seem to agree with the terra engine central holograph(T.E.C.H.) logic. They're theorizing has expanded to the Suzi terra outpost program(S.T.O.P.) project, and why?
Jenna focuses. "Those data are advanced warning," she says.
Cooper steps closer and looks at her softening eyes. For one moment, Jenna thinks, he's gone back to his flirty professor ways. He's become the man she hoped he would be.
Jenna smiles. "Look at you," she says. "A sexy man flirting with his corporate officer. His silence only sharpens her need to have him speak. "The clock is ticking on Suzi."
"So," Cooper says. "Suzi is rogue."
"Yes, her mainframe is forever, but her mind has gone into focus meandering(F.M.). We feel she is beyond retrieval."
Suzi has always kept corporate on their toes, by being a little smarter than they are. Cooper knows she is a calculating machine, her little attempts to trivialize corporate, her "bratty code" he calls it, has gone so far as to make corporate queazy now. Her full unmock won't occur without their physical presence, the one who created her. Suzie has a gun to her head.
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